There’s no reason I should be giving a new Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie a sub-positive review score. Wait, hang on, let me start over: There shouldn’t be a reason for me to give a new Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie a sub-positive review score, but hey, Kurosawa gave me about three or four, so here we are. After reviewing Creepy back in 2016, Before We Vanish is a distinct disappointment for me, not bad enough to really demand the label of “bad” but bad enough that I really can’t justify over-praising it for the elements I actually appreciated. It’s half a great film and half a baffling mystery, because I cannot understand how Kurosawa could watch his secondary plot in action and think “this is fine.”